BTW, there isn’t any lag on that Sanyo/or Sony TV. It is a flat screen CRT (Tube). Only LCD/LED/Plasma have it. You are playing on a native NTSC CRT in 240p like it is suppose to be.

kuksoolwon

November 12, 2013 at 7:15 am

I would love to see you guy’s do one of you trying to beat Donkey Kong on the Wii Version of Punch Out.Will their be a AVGN Vol 7 for the Holiday’s?If so,What id like to see is,All the AVGN Videos of the year,Plus all the Board James Videos,All the Halloween Theme Content,For me id just woule love to see all the new content that was added for 2013,So everything.Plus more Commentary,Outtakes,Maybe another Tour,Since I’m sure James Collection keeps getting Bigger.

mike keith

November 15, 2013 at 12:13 am

Mike, Um, That is a tube TV, its a flat screen, but it does have a tube, it
works the same the TV’s did years ago. It may have the ability to do HD and all
but still a Tube…. It is actually called a CRT TV, for cathode Ray Tube TV

Good job Mike 😛 not easy beating Tyson if you are rusty, and James, i want you to revisit this game and beat it, im sure all of ur fans would like that, like a training montage were u finaly beat tyson at the end

i never realized that you actually put time and lighting etc into theses vids.. i obviously noticed the editing.. but i didnt think you guys took the time for lighting for anything other than the nerd vids… thats legit… great work guys.. and props on beating tyson lol.. that game gave me alot of fuckery when i was young ha

What a GREAT video! That was exactly the same environment with my friends, as we’d cheer on the best player (Matt Weiss). Alas, we were never able to beat Tyson.

Funny, after Tyson was convicted of rape, I remember us calling up Nintendo’s help line and teasing them. Nintendo of America even had a formal statement prepared which basically said, “Nintendo will never again release another product with Mike Tyson’s name on it!” Who would think that America would soon stop caring about rape (well, unless a white guy is accused!)

Hey, James, I have a question. I saw the Boom Mic when Mike is going apeshit at the end. Do you have someone holding the Boom Mic or are you using a stand? And who is holding it or what kind of stand are you using?

Cool to see Bootsie again! Didn’t look like he was bad luck for the guys this time. Big props to MFM for the win, and Tyson’s “just got punched” face was hilarious. Also always a treat to see James losing it. Top notch fun video all around, thanks!

If you ever get the chance to see this, is James using “James Rolfe” as another YouTube channel? I’m subscribed to it and it recently posted high quality versions of older episodes of AVGN, so I wasn’t sure if it was someone else who is using it.
Also, good job on the victory, Mike!

Call me crazy, Mike, but the camera angle of this video is so similar to Awesome Video Games commentary video on the DVD (which I know you own!), it eventually gave Fraser an idea to do Video Games Awesome. That once again makes me think that Cinemassacre is going the same way FarFromSubtle went. First they did show with acting and stuff, but went doing let’s play videos instead (which isn’t bad in any way, cause let’s play videos are equally as entertaining). I know you and James are never going to give up doing scripted shows, so I’m not even worried about it. But I’m wondering if Fraser gave you and James any advices how to do let’s play videos. I would actually really love if James and Mike Play was live on Twitch (preferably with the chat on the screen).

i couldnt beat mike tyson for like 15 years. one day i sat down and played him for 3 hours and finally won. my record against tyson is like 9-348. haha… i never beat him by decision, it was always a TKO…i didnt know u could win decisions until i watched this video. hands down one of the hardest games for NES.

I love hearing MF’er Mike get all fired up at the end, seriously funny stuff. Also pretty impressive. As a little kid, I never could beat Mike Tyson, and could barely beat Super Macho Man. I remember finally getting the code to start at Mike Tyson, and getting my ass waffle-stomped by him. Felt good to see Mike kick his ass like that without any practice whatsoever.

Plus, I had no freaking idea you could dodge *faster* by hitting the D-pad back again. I never knew you could do that. Learn something new every day. 😛

Haha, takes me back to the good old days of playing this as a kid. I was the only person I knew as a kid who could actually beat Tyson. It was kind of the same scenario as you guys – a bunch of kids sitting around the TV encouraging each other and trying to figure out how to beat this guy. I remember when I first played him and he knocked me out with one punch. Blew my freaking mind! When I finally beat him though we all cheered and jumped for joy.

Funny enough, at the time, even though I could beat Tyson, I couldn’t beat Super Macho Man (it took me a while to get used to his spinning punch).

So much WIN!!! We need to create a new dimension to the term WIN to describe Mikes victory over Iron Mike. I spent countless hours trying and could not even get past Super Macho Man, and here you clobber MIKE TYSON!!!

Hell yeah! I’ve never seen that game beaten before! Wow. I’m floored by this, just like that 8-bit terror. Great to see you guys playing, great to see Bootsy, and a great video, yet again. Thank you, gentlemen.

I must of been a really good gamer,I beat Tyson when i was 9.It took me longer to beat King Hippo,Than it took me to beat tyson,Like Bootsy said,Once you get past the 1 minute 20 seconds of the uppercuts,Your fine.All you have to do is wait from Tyson to Wink & move.James Reacting was Great.I can’t believe that he had never seen Tyson knoced down ever,I thought he would of had alot of friends who could beat him.Id love to see them do Super Punch Out!Or see them try to beat Donkey Kong on the Wii Version

There was a NES Mike Tyson’s Punchout tournament at SGC at the Hyatt Dallas around midnight in the arcade game room downstairs. I kept watching everyone get smashed by Iron Mike, and I remember one of the guys from the Game Chasers were down there trying really hard to beat Mike T. Nobody ever accomplished the KO the whole time I was there. Would have been cool to see Mike M at the tournament.

This has to be one of my favorite games of all time. The music, the boxers, it all comes together in this game. One of the best games ever made easy. They are making copies of it still to this day. How many games have a 20 year legacy?

It’s criminal how much people, even experts don’t know about this game (granted, I haven’t waited until Bootsy plays yet) but there is an entire fighting dynamic that is undocumented in this game.

For instance, notice that every time Mike, or someone, hits him with the same arm (that is, the opposite of how it looks. If you do pure directions I mean when the hit comes from the left and the player hits from the right, this would be the same hand since they are facing opposite). When this happens, notice that the bar only goes down a little bit. If you lead with the SAME arm (that is, on the same side) you do twice the damage. Also, more well stuff like if you knock them down and they get up on the count of one they will only take one start to go back down, no matter what their health is.

There are also things like delayed timed punches, and all sorts of shit where you can get EVERY boss down in the first round, usually before they hit their special move.

This has all been discovered by Red Tom’s players over the years (fantastic site) and they truly unlocked the magic of this game. It once seemed like a fun little boxing game, then turned into an amazing pattern based game (still one of the best), but these days, as a game developer knowing what I’ve said above, I realize that there is ACTUALLY an incredible amount of depth in this game that almost no one knows.

There was a fucking INCREDIBLE YouTube series on this that was CRAZY fun to watch. It basically showed you (edited amazingly well) all the tricks and how to use them to just absolute massacre each character.

.. But I just checked and they made the videos private.

If you want to try to find them, the user, on YouTube, was KingdomCarts. You can still see the RESULTS of this, as played by this dude who watched the series:

Since Christmas is coming up, you guys should do a James & Mike Play of any of the Bible games that the Nerd already reviewed, or Winter Games, or any Christmas-themed game he hasn’t reviewed, like Daze Before Christmas.

THIS IS IMPORTANT!! RACIST ISSUE!!!
I just needed to post this comment hopefully somebody notices and could even possibly notify anyone that could get this message to James directly or even Mike. The shirt James is wearing in the video has the symbol of the rising sun. Surly unknown to him it is HIGHLY RACIST to Koreans!! It is similar to wearing a swastika to them! I feel he should know this.

Yeah and the swastika used to be a symbol of peace. So basically the symbol doesn’t really matter its the thoughts of the people wearing it. I’m pretty sure james has no idea this symbol is considered offensive to some people. And frankly who cares if it is, he could wear a swastika all day everyday as long as hes not preaching hatred and trying to kill the jews I just don’t care. People also get offended about cursing, perhaps J&M should never curse ever again because some people might be offended. No matter what you do in life, someone will find a reason to be offended even when there isn’t really a reason to be offended. Then add the fact that I’ve never heard any racist comments from any video james has ever done.

What you are saying is your own opinion but that doesn’t make it true. I’m sure if James wore a swastika on his shirt all day everyday or even just in a video you may be his only viewer(maybe not). I can refer you to a situation that happened recently when UFC Champ Georges St. Pierre was wearing the symbol on his gi. Korean UFC fighter Don Yun Kim wrote a formal letter to the UFC asking it not to happen again for the same reason. Many of Koreans were outraged. Since such incident Goerges has removed the symbol from his gi. You may not be offended sir, but I was just making a point to say something because this is the internet and the wrong things can make crazy things happen.